Quote Day 3: Don't Believe Everything You Think

Our thoughts are not the news. We make them up. All of them.

Quote Day 2: The Worst Probably Won't Happen

In a similar vein to yesterday’s post – the worst will probably never happen.

99.9% of the things I worry about never come true. Good reminder!

Quote Day 1: It's Always Worse in My Mind

“Having cancer hasn’t been nearly as bad as worrying about getting it.”

For the next seven days, I’m going to publish a series of my favourite quotes and what they mean to me.

Today, I’m choosing one that has recurringly relieved anxiety and stress.

This photo was published on the Humans of New York Facebook Page, along with a single sentence caption from the subject:

“Having cancer hasn’t been nearly as bad as worrying about getting it.”

While cancer specifically hasn’t been something I’ve frequently worried about, I find this quote helps a lot with other things I’ve worried about. When I read it, it reminds me that whatever I’m worried about is always worse in my imagination than it will be in real life.

Commit Harder by Uncommitting

“If I wasn’t already involved, how hard would I work to get involved now?” – Greg McKeown

One of my favourite authors, Greg McKeown, writes about the importance of uncommitting to things in order to commit more deeply to the goal that actually matters.

His advice isn’t to just go around uncommitting from everything, but to deliberately contemplate whether you would sign up for something again, if you weren’t already signed up right now.

So often for me, the answer is no.

So at the beginning of this week, I did a clear out of my calendar.

I rescheduled appointments that were too close together.

I questioned if I really needed to complete that annoying task this week (or ever?).

I rearranged my week as if I were scheduling it for my best friend.

Now I’m already looking forward to Monday.

Mastermind Round 2

I’ve been waiting all week to find out if I got into my mastermind with my coach again.

I’m feeling joyous and relieved.

2021 feels like a good year to do some more impossible things!

Take Messy Action

Lesson from today: Take messy action.

It’s SO much better than taking no action at all.

Facebook Can Be Twitter

I’ve been spending way too much time trying to find photos of me to add to my social media posts.

This week I realised that my audience doesn’t care about the photo, they just want the value of the copy.

So I figured out I can use Facebook as if it’s Twitter, and just WRITE.

Might have seemed obvious 10 years ago when people just did status updates (and photos took 4 hours to load), but today, it seems revolutionary to me.

It’s already been a productivity game-changer.

What are your tiny productivity hacks? Let me know in the comments!

You Don’t Need Social Media to Run A Business

You don’t need social media to run your business.

Social media is just another way of connecting.

You can also connect offline.

The same principles apply.

Connect with people.

Add actual real value to their life.

Share how you can help them.

Don’t love social media? Totally okay!

Use the principles at a supermarket or train station instead.

Your Website Won't Make You Money

Your website is two things: a brochure and credit card processor.

It will not make you money.

Thinking it will make you money is like expecting an eftpos card machine to bring you customers.

YOU make the money. The website is an accessory.

My website was up for an entire year before I made a single dollar in my business, but I spent that entire year thinking that having a website would automatically bring success.

Once I stopped depending on external things to make me money: websites, funnels, social media, and started depending on adding value to people’s lives and solving problems, things started to change.

Create a website if you want one. Just remember that you’re the boss.

You ARE a Thought Leader

Don’t deny the world of your genius because you didn’t come up with every idea from scratch.

It’s the combination of the genius you’ve absorbed from a bunch of different people, mixed with your own life experience, that makes YOU the creator someone loves to follow.

Your brain is a SUPERBABY of all the people you’ve been influenced by.

Tony Robbins X Oprah X Stacey Boehman X Elizabeth Gilbert X my Year 12 French Teacher = my superbaby brain.

So instead of thinking I don’t have anything valuable or new to say, I'm like Y’ALL BETTER STRAP IN TIGHT BECAUSE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD IT LIKE THIS BEFORE.

It should go without saying that plagiarism is never a vibe, but you can totally credit the original creator for their rightful intellectual property that inspired your musing AND still be a thought leader.

Actually, that's how thought leaders are created – by sharing YOUR particular mixture of superbaby genius with the world.